Ski season is over and Hunting season begins! Last Friday night Mark Rusk, Chase Tingle, Mike Pfeffer and I headed up the mountain to go deer hunting. Rain in the forecast and actually pretty dismal even when we hiked up - but hey, it's deer season. Who knows what it'll be like the next day. Only one certainty during deer season - You will not shoot a deer if you stay home.
So we went up the mountain, and it was pretty dismal. We camped in the last spruce trees before the alpine. Little meadows full of blooming arnica, monkshood, canadian dogwood, and alpine leutkea. Beautiful, but very wet and foggy. We set up the shelters and hunkered down for some fine scotch, miso soup and later tea. Not a bad way to spend the evening (see bottom two photos).
Of course it was raining the next morning so we slept late. But just after breakfast it cleared up enough that we were able to go hunting. And we found deer! In the top photo I am hiking home with half of the deer. Chase Tingle carried the other half while Mark and Mike carried back camp. On Sunday night we had my long-awaited favorite meal of the year - fresh deer liver, new potatos, bacon and onions. Patrick
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